From a workshop some years back at a conservation-park in Norway for these beautiful cats, they are really and truly beautiful and elegant animals, and endangered here in Norway, yet there are state-sanctioned hunts every winter on them to keep their population at the brink of extintion. It`s a shame. But i guess it`s like that not only in Norway regarding predatores. Loved and hated. I love them, and they will forever be my favourite big cats, although i`m soon heading for Africa ;-)

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@@The_Norwegian beautiful pictures. Were they take at the Polar Park near Narvik? I was there earlier this year and the Lynx's were in fine form. Our guide told us wild Lynx have been found in the forests around Narvik. Such a shame that hunting of these beautiful creatures is still allowed.

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their main prey is roe deer and hare. They prey on livestock such as sheep and reindeer. Threat.. i would say sheeps are a threat to the lynx beeing hunted, as in norway farmers let out their sheeps in the spring to grace during the summer, and when you let out your livestock in lynx-territory without any supervision, what can you expect? the fat, lazy sheeps without any natural instinct for fleeing from predators, of course the lynxes are triggered to hunt them.. We have only varying from 300-350 lynxes left in the wild in Norway, so it`s crazy to hunt them. This goes for all predators in Norway, wolves, wolverines and bears. I`m ashamed to call myself norwegain when it comes to this..